How do I fix this error in VS 2005? "The project file cannot be loaded. The application for project ... is not installed"

Question

How do I fix this error in Visual Studio?

"The project file cannot be loaded. The application for project ... is not installed"

I have copied a whole project onto my PC, both into My Documents/Visual Studio and into inetpub/wwwroot, but when I try to open the project in Visual Studio, it tries to open just 1 file .vssproj and gives me error messages, like : "The project file cannot be loaded. The application for project ... is not installed.". What am I doing wrong?

The VS edition is 2005 as are all the projects aI am trying to load.

Thanx in advance.

Answer 1

You haven't provided much info, but at a guess I'd say that either you don't have a new enough version of visual studio installed, or when you installed visual studio you didn't install the vb.net language as part of it. Might have happened due to installing visual studio with SQL Server Express?

Answer 2

This happens when you got no support for particular project type (for example - when trying to open MS MVC web app project without installed MS MVC).

Answer 3

If it a web application project rather than a website and you haven't upgraded to Service Pack 1 you'll get this error.